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"And who killed the miners? Say the grim bells of Blaina..."

Thu, 08/23/2007 - 08:42 — Bobbo

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In biology class I learned that carbon is the element that gives us life. It's unique ability to chain with other elements into wondrously complex arrays is why we are here today.

Yet this week it was hard to think of carbon as the element of life. There were simply too many deaths resulting from our mad addiction to the carbon that lies buried in the ground.


Walking through Glenmont, Maryland in 2005.

Sat, 06/30/2007 - 18:51 — Bobbo

I  was born in DC and was a baby and toddler at 13th and Clifton NW.  We eventually moved out of inner city DC into the working class Glenmont  area of suburban Maryland. I stayed there from 1951-1961. In  the summer of 2005, I walked through my old neighborhood to see how it was doing.

My partner Estelle Carol and I emerged from the cool semi-darkness of the Glenmont, Maryland Metro station into the blazing August sun. Glenmont  sure looked different from the newly bulldozed subdivision that had been cut out of the rolling hills of the Piedmont in the early 1950's. Back then, Georgia Avenue was a two lane country road narrow enough that I could bomb commuter cars with pine cones from a tree limb that stretched over the southbound lane from the adjacent Denley farm.


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